Jean Paul
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter was a German novelist and short-story writer
22 quotes.
Quotes by Jean Paul
- All strength lies within, not without.
- Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
- Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with the eyes open.
- Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations.
- Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.
- Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
- Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
- Let every minute be a full life to thee.
- Look upon every day as the whole of life, not merely as a section; and enjoy and improve the present without wishing, through haste, to rush on to another.
- Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another.
- Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
- No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
- Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
- Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection.
- Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.
- That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity.
- The end we aim at must be known before the way.
- The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
- The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.
- The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others.
- The words that the father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world; but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.